Holly and Phillip Challenge Parents Who Disagree With Transgender Children in School | This Morning

well I think that the issue here is we're talking about primary school we're talking about very young children we talk about children five six seven eight to us that seems extremely young to start pushing you know a social agenda on such young children it's different when you become an adult or a teenager you can work start working through those things but it's such a young age we feel that a child is not able to make in a informed decision it's a major life-changing thing it's a it's I think we've done a lot of transgender interviews on here a lot had met a lot of children who have decided that that they are gender-fluid and and a lot of parents who as well the parents thing pretty much on the whole I could say that never pushed their children into this it was the child's choice to help them it was the child but had the issue that they that they felt and I want to do this for me yes I think we would say that you know children at that young who have a confusion about which gender they are that they need that support but you know we have compassion and love about these families and the families this has been a very painful thing because we are friends with these people we love the school and we're part we do assemblies we're very involved but we see the the effect effect of this on there and we just felt that the process that happened is not not right it was just like pushed this is going to happen one day they just turn up a boy wearing a ghost dress with a girl's name instead of having a proper consultation with that and we just feel that that child needs to be taken aside with medical advice people who experience and people who experience medical advice why is the child who decides their gender-fluid need medical well under the Equality Act apparently you know you it's at the age of 18 this starts and you have to show they have been a transgender for two years and that sort of thing but again it comes down to it being a child you see a child a child of that so young can't make that informed decision it's it's this party and the tightest ik also apparently is that 98 98 percent I believe of people who who said that they felt like that when they were younger turn out not to be like that at all and I think it could be damaging not only to you know the translation because obviously you know you've made the decision to take both your children and homeschool them because they were under amount of stress and I can understand that it might have been a shock that one day suddenly a boy comes in address and the names change and without that understanding of what's happened I can understand that that might have been a unusual thing to happen but is this not part of the understanding that by doing this there is greater understanding and actually it could have been a chance to open up a conversation to to educate so it became more normal forever so it wasn't a stressful situation I totally agree but we felt that shouldn't be done in the environment of the school we should be done out of the score these things have to be dealt with I guess that's a child's life it's it's where they spend most of their time there you are imposing that on all the other children why is it an imposition because you are asking them they know that one day they know that child that they're the friends they're a boy this is their name and now you're saying now you have to you have to now call them he changed they'll be a change their name will be a lot of people who are who are saying that our children adapt remarkably well and and they if they're if things are explained to them they may understand very clearly it's not an issue with with the children it's an issue with you you're the ones that have the problem not the children well how do you deal with a child then because what the children come sometimes as a boy sometimes as a girl so what about it how do you address that how do you address that every day X and then and and and what about if there's a situation where you know that there supposedly supposed to use the correct pronoun and they don't will the child with the other children get chastised for that it's a it's a very social complex issue and we just feel that for such young children it's not right what the answer then because if this child that is transitioning or designed to explore or being fluid or whatever they whatever they decide to say if they're if they're going through this in their life to keep other parents and other children happy should they just be hidden away taken to a school where they can oh no no we're what they want and just be you know I think it's really got to understand something here we're talking about children and they are all special and unique and the parents you know they want to do the best for their children which is just that parent was doing yes I guess I agree baby I mean that's what they don't say that was absolutely they would say that we personally felt that they probably received the wrong advice I think also there's a great sort of media thing where they're trying to try to push this and that it's that's a good thing but I think there's more to I think this you know we need to look at the scientific evidence behind it and you know whether this is actually healthy and as I said the two tist ik that most need is pushing at I think it is recognizing it for the first night it's it's the same sort of situation you know as a child who years ago would have been terrified chastised for coming out as gay and maybe would would you have been part of those parents who said well not in my school because things move on people don't change well that attitudes change we we're less medieval now than we used to be at attitudes to change and actually I mean you've got a point there I think society you know it's gonna have to decide I think there many parents throughout that I mean the reason we stood up might want to make a stand for this we believe there are many many parents throughout the whole UK who would be concerned with that but at the end of the day it looks like well society's going to decide how how school is going to be but I just want to make a point that how far is it going to go or we could allow children then to come dressed as animals or if their I mean there's things cool I mean this is extreme I agree you know for example species dysphoria we could then you know allow children then to come in because they believe they're animals right I think how is that going to affect the other children I think we've got to think about the whole picture we've got to think about all the other kids you

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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 11 2017